iunie 03, 2013

Nullius in verba

'We have undoubtedly shifted the nature of the correspondences, and their
alignments one to another. With the demise of alchemy, we have looked
increasingly to experiment and measurable results to dictate the nature
of our science. Alchemy is the last moment when the magical is still
permitted as a licit element of the genuinely scientific enterprise, and
it is a moment that has a sort of afterlife in Newton, who would appear
to have regarded force at a distance as an occult power, and who never
gave up his alchemical experiments to the end of his life.'